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Landscape, Legal, and Biodiversity Threats that Windows Pose to Birds: A Review of an Important Conservation Issue
Daniel Klem Jr. - In: Land 3 (2014) 1, pp. 351-361
Windows in human residential and commercial structures in urban, suburban, and rural landscapes contribute to the deaths of billions of birds worldwide. International treaties, federal, provincial, state, and municipal laws exist to reduce human-associated avian mortality, but are most often not...
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Housing Density and Ecosystem Function: Comparing the Impacts of Rural, Exurban, and Suburban Densities on Fire Hazard, Water Availability, and House and Road Distance Effects
Vukomanovic, Jelena; Doumas, Sandra L.; Osterkamp, Waite R. - In: Land 2 (2013) 4, pp. 656-678
Many amenity-rich regions are experiencing rapid land-use change through low-density residential development or exurbanization. Those same natural-resource amenities that attracted migration are often degraded by housing growth and associated development. This study examines the impacts of...
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Preserving the Picturesque: Perceptions of Landscape, Landscape Art, and Land Protection in the United States and China
Ellison, Aaron M. - In: Land 3 (2014) 1, pp. 260-281
The predominant environmental consciousness in both the United States and China reflects an underlying sense of …
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A Resilience-Based Approach to the Conservation of Valley Oak in a Southern California Landscape
Hayes, James J.; Donnelly, Shanon - In: Land 3 (2014) 3, pp. 834-849
Conservation thinking will benefit from the incorporation of a resilience perspective of landscapes as social … for reorganization as a response to changes in the landscape and environmental conditions. This reorganization can benefit … conservation efforts; however, we must ask what limits there are to valley oak’s capacity to reorganize and still maintain its …
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Designing an Index to Reveal the Potential of Multipurpose Landscapes in Southern Africa
Torquebiau, Emmanuel; Cholet, Nathalie; Ferguson, Willem; … - In: Land 2 (2013) 4, pp. 705-725
agricultural production and biodiversity conservation. Rewarding the people who shape and maintain those landscapes could act as a … (conservation, production, institutions and livelihood) and ecosystem services (provisioning, regulating and cultural services). The …
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Historical and Contemporary Geographic Data Reveal Complex Spatial and Temporal Responses of Vegetation to Climate and Land Stewardship
Villarreal, Miguel L.; Norman, Laura M.; Webb, Robert H.; … - In: Land 2 (2013) 2, pp. 194-224
conservation value in the southwestern United States: grasslands and riparian vegetation. In contrast to many reported vegetation …
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Housing Density and Ecosystem Function: Comparing the Impacts of Rural, Exurban, and Suburban Densities on Fire Hazard, Water Availability, and House and Road Distance Effects
Vukomanovic, Jelena; Doumas, Sandra L.; Osterkamp, W. R.; … - In: Land 2 (2013) 4, pp. 656-677
Many amenity-rich regions are experiencing rapid land-use change through low-density residential development or exurbanization. Those same natural-resource amenities that attracted migration are often degraded by housing growth and associated development. This study examines the impacts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011029707
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Farmers’ Distress Index: An Approach for an Action Plan to Reduce Vulnerability in the Drylands of India
Reddy, A. Amarender; Bhattacharya, Anindita; Reddy, S. Venku - In: Land 10 (2021) 11, pp. --
Farmer distress is a widely recognized problem in India induced by multiple causes ranging from climate variability to price volatility and the low risk-bearing ability of farmers. Tracking farmers’ distress in a localized context is a prerequisite for timely action to provide sustainable...
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Development of a Historical Multi-Year Land Cover Classification Incorporating Wildfire Effects
Morrison, Katherine D.; Kolden, Crystal A. - In: Land 3 (2014) 4, pp. 1214-1231
Land cover change impacts ecosystem function across the globe. The use of land cover data is vital in the detection of these changes over time; however, most available land cover products, such as the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD), are produced relatively infrequently. The most recent NLCD...
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Landscape Fire, Biodiversity Decline and a Rapidly Changing Milieu: A Microcosm of Global Issues in an Australian Biodiversity Hotspot
Gill, A. Malcolm; McKenna, David J.; Wouters, Michael A. - In: Land 3 (2014) 3, pp. 1091-1136
conservation in a world of increasing population and a drying, fire-prone environment. At just 0.1% of Australia’s terrestrial land … conservation in the region, wider recognition of the all-tenure, whole-of-landscape, whole-of-community approach to biodiversity … conservation and fire management is needed if the probability of further extinctions is to be reduced. …
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